The shark doesn't beat up the female shark and threaten to kill her if she doesn't mate with him, and the same if he thinks she might go to the police afterwards. That seems to be a human peculiarity. Rape isn't merely "forceful copulation", it's about power and dominance for the most part.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
